DRUNK West Ham players mocked ex-boss Alan Pardew, romped with scantily-clad girls and scuffled with revellers at their Christmas party, to shatter claims of being devastated by his sacking.

New manager Alan Curbishley took over yesterday vowing to halt the club's slide which saw Pardew sacked on Monday. But it looks a massive task after Hammers stars - including skipper Nigel Reo-Coker - went out on the lash despite the team being in desperate relegation trouble.

Curbishley said: "We start with a clean slate." Which is just as well for Reo-Coker, who insisted he was distraught at Pardew's exit, that he had had no problem playing for the former Reading boss and that he was being unfairly singled out for criticism by fed-up fans.

But that looked far from the case during Tuesday night's knees-up at swanky club Silver in London's Mayfair.

The jibe at Pardew came as the club DJ grabbed the microphone from defender Anton Ferdinand and proposed a toast to the departed Upton Park boss.

Ferdinand, Reo-Coker, Carlton Cole, and old team-mate Elliot Ward all responded by booing and jeering loudly, then rolling around laughing.

Things turned nasty at around 1am, however, when midfielder Hayden Mullins was caught up in a scuffle and was bundled out of an exit by security guards and told not to come back. Wives and girlfriends were banned from the party, themed 'Hot Single Girls Only'.

Instead, the female company included reality TV stars Aislyene Horgan- Wallace, busty Makosi Mumbasi and a host of glamour girls who paid £20-a-head to join the festive celebrations.

Striker Bobby Zamora and Paul Konchesky were also partying but conspicuous by their absence were Argentinian stars Carlos Tevez and Javier Mascherano who have been the source of so much disquiet at the club.

New manager Curbishley insisted that he knew nothing of any problems within West Ham but his first task will be a major crackdown on discipline. He faces a baptism of fire on Sunday when the Hammers host Manchester United at Upton Park.